Galleries of the Week 12/31

Here are six free galleries for the week, from Galitsin News, Hegre-Art, Michelle7, Met-Art, and IShotMyself:

Beautiful Agony

I have to admit- when I first heard of Beautiful Agony, I immediately imagined something on the darker side of porn. For some reason I decided to check it out anyway, and I sure am glad I did. It is by far the most original and sophisticated porn site in existence. This may sound strange, but nowhere on Beautiful Agony will you find a single picture of a nipple, vulva, or penis. The site contains nothing but videos of faces. More precisely, it is a collection of videos sent in from all over the world by people who have filmed their own face while they masturbated to orgasm. Every video shows the entire process from warm up to orgasm and then cooling down again. Between the sound and the face, its easy to guess exactly what's going on outside the video frame. Beautiful Agony is perfect evidence of the fact that using your imagination can be much more exciting than simply watching. Not only is the concept brilliant, the presentation is elegant, simple, and very sophisticated. Beautiful Agony is so unique that description can't tell the whole story. So take a look for yourself: I have provided three short sample video clips below, but they are unfortunately just that- short sample video clips. To get a better idea of what a real Beautiful Agony video looks like, there are always one or two full length free samples available here.

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Merry Christmas

I would like to wish a Merry Christmas to all of you- my loyal readers. As a little Christmas gift, I am posting three extra galleries today. If you enjoy my site or have ideas for paysites or issues you'd like to see me talk about, I would love it if you let me know, either by commenting on a post, or by emailing me.

One more thing: if you enjoy some of the sites I have galleries from, and you know of other people who might as well, memberships to paysites make great Christmas presents! I know I will be giving some. If you've procastinated too much and don't have enough presents, its very quick, easy, and surprisingly cheap. Just click on any of the sponsor links or galleries on this site, join up, and give someone the username and password. (Of course you can always continue to use that account, making it a present that you get to keep as well!) Just something to think about...

So without further ado, your Christmas present:



P.S. I feel like I should have included other holidays as well, but unfortunately, I couldn't find any Hannukah or Kwanzaa galleries. If you know where I could find some, let me know.

Galleries of the Week 12/24

Here are six brand new free galleries for the week, from Galitsin News, Hegre-Art, Michelle7, Met-Art, and MPL Studios:

I Shot Myself

I Shot Myself is what happens when you take the very best qualities of porn, the very best qualities of erotic art, and the very best qualities of self-expression, and put them all together in one place. If you've never seen I Shot Myself, let me introduce you to the way it works: Girls from all over the world take a digital camera, take off their clothes, and photograph themselves nude (or in various stages of nudity). ISM provides a place where all these isolated artists/models can show their work and enjoy others'. As for personal touch, it's hard to think of how a site could be more personal than ISM. As for honesty, no photographer, no matter how skilled, knows the subject as well as the subject herself. Seeing girls the way they want to be seen is an incredible experience that pornography almost never provides. Luckily ISM saw the problem and got right to work on a solution. I Shot Myself is a porn/art site for the sophisticated adult, but it trades none of its eroticism for its sophistication. Take a look at these free sample galleries from I Shot Myself, and I promise you, you too will fall in love.

Galleries of the Week 12/17

Here are six new free galleries for your enjoyment. This week they are from Abby Winters, Hegre-Art (formerly Hegre-Archives), Galitsin News, and Met-Art.

Color vs. Black & White

For this week lets switch into photography mode. I have worked as a photographer semi-seriously for a substantial portion of my life, and one aspect of the art that has always been of great interest to me is the choice between color or black and white for a particular picture. Although photographers each have their own perspective on this decision, I imagine that most agree that removing the color information from an image alters a lot more than simply the color. A question that I think is not asked often enough, is why is black and white used at all? The world is in color. Why throw away some of the reality of an image? The answer, I believe, is that a black and white photograph allows a much greater focus on form, texture, light and dark than the same photograph in color. A black and white photograph must have clear textures and forms of different luminosities to be successful. The beautifully lit photograph by Petter Hegre that I've used to illustrate this post is an excellent example of the possibilites of black and white. Color photography is an entirely different art. A successful color photograph must use color itself as the main interest. The color may be vibrant, subdued or somewhere in between, but it must have interest on its own. This difference, I think, is quite nonintuitive, and often overlooked. In nude photography, I am generally more interested in black and white, because the female form seems to me to be more form than color. There are, of course exceptions, and every once in a while I will see a nude photo that makes brilliant use of color. I have selected three sample galleries to illustrate my point. The first, from MPL Studios is a great example of a subdued sepia tone used to evoke a mood. The second is a classic gallery from Petter Hegre which demonstrates his skill at using vibrant colors to highlight form. The third gallery, from New Nude Mag, explores some of the beautiful possibilites of black and white photography.

Galleries of the Week 12/10

Here are six new free galleries for this week, from Galitsin News, Met-Art, Hegre Art (formerly Hegre Archives), and MPL Studios. Enjoy...

Michelle7 Erotica

Remember what I said last week about the abundance of quality nude photography as opposed to artistic depictions of sex, which are very hard to come by? I talked about Abby Winters' girl-girl shoots as the exception to this rule. Well, a few days ago I took a good look at a site that I've been peripherally aware of for quite a while: Michelle7 Erotica. This site, I discovered, is one more exception to the rule I laid out in last week's post. Intrestingly, Michelle7 Erotica takes the exact opposite approach of Abby Winters- rather than focusing on honest depictions of real girls having real sex, Michelle7 is all about the art of portraying sexual activity. In the same way that sex scenes in movies are sometimes exquisitely beautiful, although completely fake, the photographers of Michelle 7 Erotica artfully recreate the beauty of the act, rather than simply document reality. I have never before seen a site that successfully combined the artistic and explicit. Michelle7Erotica is truly one of its kind. Here are two free sample galleries for you to enjoy:

Galleries of the Week 12/2

Here are six new free galleries for this week, from Hegre Archives, Galitsin News, Whitfield Journals, Met-Art, and MPL Studios.